Karl-Heinz Fix, Carsten Nicolaisen und Ruth Pabst offer an innovative reference work concerning the constitutional development and staff of the 56 german protestant churches existing from 1918 to 1948/49 – some of them only temporarily. Thus, they show in the respective preliminary texts how the inner-protestantic church struggle (Kirchenkampf) during the years of 1933 and 1945 engendered church-political groupings.For the first time those are being listed with unprecedented completeness.